Air Force Gen. Dan Caine gives timeline of military operation that captured Maduro in Venezuela

Описание: The U.S. military’s surprise, overnight operation to detain Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was months in-the-making and involved more than 150 aircraft and drones, integrated space and cyber effects, multiple intelligence agencies and law enforcement personnel, according to senior government officials who oversaw it.
Explosions were reported in Venezuela’s capital city of Caracas early Saturday as U.S. forces launched strikes and a large-scale raid that led to the capture of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. The couple are now on a U.S. Navy ship en route to the states, where they are indicted in the Southern District of New York on narco-terrorism charges. During a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate Saturday morning, President Donald Trump and several of his closest advisors revealed new details about this mission, dubbed Operation Absolute Resolve. At Saturday’s press briefing, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine shared new information about the U.S. military’s preparation for the operation — as well as a brief play-by-play of how it was carried out. “At 10:46pm Eastern Time last night, the president ordered the United States military to move forward with this mission,” Caine said. “Over the course of the night, aircraft began launching from 20 different bases on land and sea across the Western Hemisphere. In total, more than 150 aircraft — bombers, fighters, intelligence, reconnaissance, surveillance, rotary wing — were in the air last night. Thousands and thousands of hours of experience were airborne.”
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